Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour, and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / by John Clarke, M. D. physician to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans; and Teacher of Midwifery in London.

  • Clarke, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1793
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    upper part of the fymphyfis pubis. Such a fixe! fituation of the uterus hardly occurs be- fore the end of the third month, nor can after the time of quickening; becaufe in the firffc cafe, though the uterus might change its fitua- tion, it could not remain confined, and after the time of quickening the uterus will be in the cavity of the abdomen. In thin fubjecls, if the hand be laid above the pubes, the full bladder will be eafily diflinguifhed ; and in fatter women preiTure on that part will pro- duce a flrong inclination to make water. The effect of this change in the relative fituation of the uterus will be prefTure upon the re£lum behind, and (which is of more confequence) upon the meatus urinas before; whence wall arife, in proportion to the degree of compreflion, a partial, or total fuppreflion of urine. I am difpofed to be of opinion, from a con- fideration of the cafes which have occurred to me, that a retroverfion of the uterus is more apt to occur either in a remarkably large, or in a pelvis rather too fmall, and that the ordinary iize of the pelvis is leaft liable to it. In the former, the concavity of the fa- crum being great, affords a convenient lodg- ment for the fundus uteri; and in the latter, 8 the